over the period 2005-09. The empirical results suggest that policies aimed at easing the binding credit constraints (e …

Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first … the policies affecting the decision to migrate. The end of the first section provides an analysis of the emigration …

for a larger menu of policies, institutions and structural characteristics of the economy than has been done so far, our … endogeneity of attitudes, policies and institutions, and by allowing for the persistent nature of labor market outcomes. When we … do all this we find that culture still matters for women employment rates and for hours worked. However, policies and …

OECD's territorial review of Italian regions. It finds that Italy’s economic development has been characterised by … marked regional disparities, most notably between the Centre-North and the South. Today, Italy demonstrates one of the widest … the Mezzogiorno (Southern Italy) which involve all actors and all tiers of government, in the strategic phases of design …

between different sectoral and household constituencies within countries. Case study summaries are included for Brazil, Italy …